NextDNS analytics
Part of that is probably all his apps got nuked?
my mom would call the fire department if I tried to change the default wallpaper of her 2010 iphone
My pihole reports similar after blocking millions of sites
The problem with that is it is going to retry again and again. I wish there was a way to make them think they connected so there would be less tries.
Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.
Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn’t exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.
It’s basically just a ping that fails at that point. Not like it’s taking down the network.
I’m too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we’d save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads
You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.
What’s the downside for them?
You can try this out by metering your usage with Rethink. It measures how much each app uses on and off of wifi in addition to its myriad other functions.
I was able to switch from unlimited data to a 3GB/month data plan when I switched to Graphene OS.
Must not do much with your phone. Or you use it less after graphene.
same! only used half a gig last month its mind boggling. cost 3 bucks for data and 5 bucks for my number thru jmp
Nice! I was thinking about jmp before but read about issues with 2fa texts. My credit card still relies on 2fa texts so I am not sure if jmp would work for me.
Do you have any issues with texts from short numbers (5digit) and 2fa texts in general?
haven’t had any issues so far! but I ported my existing number and haven’t tried creating any new accounts which is where I suspect most of the issues arise. most carriers give out your name and address to banks so I think jmp is targeted when you are a new customer and they want to verify you through your carrier. i have switched to a local credit union for my cards so if an issue arises I can always talk to a real human to verify my identity
Wow! That’s much more that I would have thought. Can’t wait to liberate my dad’s phone over the holidays, he’s on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom’s stuck on a carrier-locked phone.
My windows work laptop claims most of the blocked requests in pihole in this Linux household
I wonder how much electricity and bandwith is used by all that spyware…
Since switching my FP6 to /e/OS i get at least double the battery life (not heavily using it, just messaging, listening to podcasts, outertune and some browsing). Especially when the screen is off, there is almost no battery usage.
Crazy…also, you made me remember how i had this cheap ass phone who battery life was like 2 days with screen off, i removed the google stuff and it became a full week (and i was hosting a discord bot on that guy btw)
Yeah i still remember my Redmi Notes fondly. Great battery life, good custom rom support, everything i needed from a smartphone. Very unfortunate, that xiaomi restricts custom ROMs as much as they do…
He just used his phone less in general?
Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?
Sure it’s not that he no longer is able to use his phone? (Just kidding)
I wonder how much is just due to the default phone launcher and keyboard.
